[HPforGrownups] Re: James's age

[Lenore]

No: HPFGUIDX 173455


>ronnie here:
>And speaking of JK's notoriously weak arithmetic skills, I've been
>wondering for some time now about a similar question, but thought it
>might be too picky and obsessional to put here:
>
>The Potters had a son when they were 20 years old - young, but
>acceptable. However, in OotP, Lupin says to Molly Weasley after the
>boggart scene: "... but we're much better off than we were last time.
>You weren't in the Order then. you don't understand". I always
>thought that meant she was younger than the Mauraders, and was
>underage, but how could thad be? She couldn't possibly have 5
>successfull pregnancies before the age of 17! (Charlie, Bill, Percy,
>Fred & George, Ron. We know her brothers were at the order (the
>Prewetts) - so how come she wasn't??

Lenore:
I see what you mean.  Molly was actually older than James-Lupin-Sirius
by several years!  She had to be 26 or 27 at the least, in order to already
have six children, at the time LV was vaporized. Ron was 19 months old then,
so she could have already had Ginny too by then.  Somehow I think this
could explain why she wasn't in the Order; she had quite enough to be
getting on with.

And, while she may not have been in the Order, she and Arthur were
certainly very aware of the WW news, and they had shared in the
atmosphere of tension and terror from childhood on.  How could she
'not understand' when she had lost brothers during that time?

I have found JKR's math skills to be slightly better than her calendar skills.
Or, maybe it's just that WW lunation cycles are more wildly variable and
erratic than our own. <g>

Lenore